This book offers an overview of the most important aspects and applications of additives for waterborne systems in diverse market segments. Wernfried Heilen helps to understand how additives work and elucidates all kinds of mechanisms in great detail. Furthermore he dispels a lot of myths surrounding paint additives with an excellent combination of theory and practice. This enables a deep insight into all the different application areas for additives in waterborne paint systems.

Audience: Formulators involved in developing, producing, and testing of waterborne coatings and paints for different applications and substrates including can and coil coatings, heavy duty protective coatings, plastics coatings, wood coatings and architectural coatings.

7 Deaerators7.1 Mode of action of deaerators7.1.1 Dissolution of microfoam7.1.2 Rise of microfoam bubbles in the coating film7.1.3 How to prevent microfoam in coating films7.1.4 How deaerators combat microfoam7.1.4.1 Deaerators promote the dissolution or formation of small microfoam bubbles7.1.4.2 How deaerators promote the dissolution of microfoam bubbles7.2 Chemical composition of deaerators7.3 Main applications according to binder systems7.4 Main applications according to market segments7.5 Tips and tricks7.6 Evaluating the effectiveness of deaerators7.6.1 Test method for low to medium viscosity coating formulations7.6.2 Test method for medium to high viscosity coating formulations7.6.3 Further test methods for microfoam7.7 Conclusion7.7 Literature